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35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room
The miracle of birth can quickly become a very complicated and confusing affair when delivery room drama starts flaring up. Fights with doctors, peculiar comments, and even partners accidentally leaving the moms going into labor at home are just the tip of the iceberg.
Reddit users shared the most intense, wildest, and weirdest things they’d witnessed in the delivery room after user u/Roach2791 started up a thread on r/AskReddit asking them exactly that. One thing’s for sure, the thread increased our respect for the doctors and nurses who have to keep the situation under control under these extremely emotional conditions, alongside their actual jobs.
If you think that delivery rooms and hospitals are drama-free zones, then these stories are likely to change your mind. Scroll down and have a read, Pandas. Let us know what you think about these situations in the comments. And if you feel like sharing, why not tell us about the bizarre things that you’ve seen as well?
I reached out to Labor and Delivery (L&D) Nurse Holly D. to learn the secrets to staying calm in the delivery room, how medical professionals can keep the situation in control if there's drama, and how important communication is for professionals and parents.
L&D Nurse Holly stressed how vital it is that medical professionals "remained unbiased and focused on the safety of the patient" no matter the exact details of the situation in the delivery room or the hospital. "Safety in a delivery room for the baby and mother come first above all else. Ensuring your patient is safe mentally, emotionally, and physically during this time is vital. Reminding the parties involved in the drama why we are all here can help diffuse and refocus the energy. We can ask involved parties (not the patient) to leave and return at a later time due to the circumstances of the situation. However, if things become unsafe and nurses are unable to diffuse the situation security will be called," she told Bored Panda.
You'll find my full interview with Holly as you scroll down. Meanwhile, you can visit her TikTok and Instagram for her insights about her job.
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#1
My great grandmother had 13 children. Somewhere around number 5 or 6 she made it as far as the front lawn of the hospital and gave birth. The next pregnancy she only made it as far as the elevator and was totally mortified. The nurse on staff tried to reassure her by saying "it's okay, last year someone gave birth on the front lawn." She had the rest of her babies at home.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
According to my mother, I missed being murdered by my father at birth by about 20 minutes. If I'd shown up while he was driving her in his Mustang? Oh, he'd have killed me for ruining the upholstery. And, sadly, I don't think that's a joke. Dad really loved that car.
Lainie 4 years ago
Omg LOL, no, no, lol. I'm so so sorry, but I honestly have hopes that you were exaggerating. I'm not sure what to say. But I am sorry. :/
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
A woman who worked for me had five kids. Her LONGEST labour was 20 minutes. She made it out of the house and to the side of the road for that one. The others came so quickly, she didn't have time to do anything. She was also a tiny woman, like below average height and less than a size zero. But she popped out babies like a sneeze.
Ivana 4 years ago
My grandmother had 14, 10 boys and 4 girls. After number 4 she never made it to the hospital, just had them all at home and they came right out. She had so many kids because she had this really huge farm, a few thousand acres to plow and no tractors until later on. Then my great-grandmother died and my great-grandfather had no one around to curb his gamboling habit. So that is how my grandmother went from a huge farm with 5 houses on the property to a 2 bedroom town house jammed tight with 14 kids. Though I think most of the older boys just went off on their own and never moved into the town house.
Potato 4 years ago
Are you saying she had kids just to create her own laborers?
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Mary Beth Miller 4 years ago
My daughter's friend had her second in the backseat of her car. In a parking lot. Of a Pizza Hut.
Megan Valliere 1 year ago
Now that's a good story, and something I'd like to see more often. Good stories in short story format! Perfection! It really is great though, bless her soul.
According to nurse Holly, how we stay calm can depend a lot on who we are as people and on how intricate the circumstances are. "The most effective way of remaining in control and calm in these moments as the patient is communicating with your medical team. Open up to the team about your thoughts, fears, and questions from the start," she said.
"The healthcare team can begin to walk you through common scenarios as well as possible emergency situations before they happen. By doing this it permits parents to ask additional questions that would arise in these scenarios, as well as give a 'sense of calmness' during an emergency," she explained to Bored Panda.
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#2
Workmate of mine is about to become a dad in the next week. His wife has been getting to know the nurses at their local hospital and listening to some of the stories....
One day a bloke came running down the ward hallway screaming for help that his wife was in labour and they needed the docs to come quickly! The nurses looked around curiously and asked him "ok... so where is she?"
The colour from the bloke's face drains for a second as he thinks this over...
"OH S**T!" and he legs it out of there.
40 minutes later he returns with wife in tow. In his initial rush, he'd packed change of clothes, the car seat, camera gear, high tailed it to the hospital and left the missus at home!
PeachPossum 4 years ago
It's been highly detailed in the divorce application.
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Jitka Šedová 4 years ago (edited)
Quite the opposite here. In labour, I got in the cab, told the driver to get me to the hospital, he drove maybe 20 metres, than stopped and asked: "Is he coming with us?" I totally forgot about my husband who was just closing the gate :D
Marco Conti 4 years ago
When my grandfather was a Taxi driver in Rome he did exactly the same thing, except that he realized a few blocks away that the husband wasn't in the cab. My grandfather had a few stories of picking up a fare late in his shift, forgetting about the guy in the back seat and driving him to the taxi garage. Quite hilarious (he gave the poor passenger a free fare). I think it happened to him 3 or 4 times, but forgetting the husband was a one time event.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
He will be hearing about that for the rest of his life, no matter how long that is.
Celina Knippling 4 years ago
My sister was an ON/Gyn resident and was pregnant with twins. She woke up 6 weeks before the due date & thought something was wrong. Her husband told her she worries too much & went back to sleep. She decided to drive over to go in early for her shift and see if she could have a colleague check her out. Long story short, her husband had to race like mad to the hospital and was still scrambling to pull on the cap, gown, & boots in the prep room when Baby A arrived. At least he was there ready when Baby B showed up 20 minutes later. So now my sister has a good comeback if he accuses her of worrying too much.
#3
A doctor was delivering the baby via ventouse, a vacuum extraction. He was pulling, and you do honestly have to put some muscle into it, those babies are stuck pretty fast in there sometimes. Anyway, the suction cap came off the baby's head, this happens a lot. The father of the baby thought that the doctor had pulled so hard that he had pulled the baby's head off, so naturally punched the doctor in the jaw, who went straight down to the ground like a felled tree. Much yelling ensued, people holding the father back, him realising that the baby was fine once we pointed out that the head was still inside, unconscious doctor being pulled into a chair, another doctor coming in to do the delivery, the mother crying hysterically.
We had to have a quick and frantic conversation at the midwives' station about whether to allow the father to remain in the room. We decided that from his vantage point it may have appeared that the baby's head had been, uh, removed and that he had a momentary loss of reason. He was also hugely apologetic and took responsibility for his actions. The doctor who got punched took every opportunity afterwards to tell that story as often as possible and we all laughed.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Usually if the baby's head pops off they can reattach it. It's like the five second rule.
SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 4 years ago
Now I’m fondly remembering the very satisfying “pop” I felt in my hand the last time I popped a baby’s head back on.
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Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
This would have been funnier if it weren't for the fact that a doctor *has* decapitated a baby during delivery. I can't remember the details. But it happened. So it's not such an irrational fear after all.
buttonpusher 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah I heard about this a while back. Think it happened in India. The details were horrific, the stuff of nightmares.
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Upstaged75 4 years ago
That can actually happen, I watched an interview with a poor woman whose baby was decapitated during birth. The head came out first, then she had to deliver the body separately. It's one of the most horrifying things I've ever heard.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Those vacuums shouldn't be allowed, then. Babies have to be guided so carefully. Their spines can get easily disjointed or crooked.
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Flying Captain 4 years ago
I like to believe my future husband thinks about this twice bc if my doc is unconscious and sth happens to the baby my hubby is gonna have to endure a lot of death threats ...
elSti 4 years ago
but the daddy thought s**t already happened to the baby ... you know head pulled off.
Load More Replies...Communication is the bedrock of quality work and care. Nurse Holly believes that it should be maintained at all times, no matter how complex, intense, or dramatic the situation. In fact, it becomes even more valuable in those types of situations.
"Communication is necessary in Labor and Delivery between the medical team and the patient/parents. Miscommunication or lack of communication can lead to mistakes and chaos between both dynamics. Communication throughout the duration of the patient's stay should be expected," she highlighted.
"During emergencies in Labor and Delivery communication between parents and medical team should be available. Great practice is designating knowledgeable personnel to walk parents through the emergency situation as it is happening, this could be a nurse. This allows parents to understand the priority of the situation, also this allows questions to be asked and decisions to be made by parents during the emergency. Although the situation is moving fast communication should be kept at priority between all."
#4
I gave birth in an emergency room hallway, courtesy of having sudden onset preterm, super short labor. We had JUST moved to a new town and they did not have a full hospital, only a stand alone ER. So husband goes casually cruising up the freeway on the way to the hospital 30 minutes away and I had a feeling s**t was about to go down, saw a sign for the ER and just screamed at him to pull off. We get into the ER and they immediately call an ambulance to take me to a hospital with a NICU. Paramedics are literally wheeling me down the hall to the ambulance when my daughter started crowning. They rounded the corner of the ER to get to an area with some space and the dude in the room right next to us was in cardiac arrest. So this poor ER is completely empty except the screaming pregnant woman birthing a preterm infant in the hallway and the elderly gentleman dying. My daughter wound up being solely delivered by the 2 paramedics who were transporting me because the ER doc was busy running the code and the 2 nurses on staff were flying EVERYWHERE. They were running in and out of the other guys room with meds and fluid, sprinting around with the baby isolette, etc. The other patients' family is clustered in the hallway staring at my gaping vagina while also crying over their dying relative. When my daughter let out her first cry there was a paltry round of cheers from that family and then they all went back to their crying. Meanwhile my husband is curled up in a waiting room chair heavy breathing from light headedness and everyone is ignoring his feeble cries for water. He was literally acting like he was about to die. In the end no one died, baby was fine, husband passed out, and 5 years later I became a paramedic. It was 0600 AM, hence the minimal staffing.
Otter 4 years ago
I would very much like to know if a paramedic and a man who passed out in a medical emergency stayed married.
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Christine Brand 4 years ago
Touching that the family of the cardiac arrest took time to cheer the baby.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
When I was a military wife , another wife I was friends with was in labor . She looked up to see a class of terrified looking medical students at the end of her bed ! Lol, you can say whether or not you'll allow medical students in your delivery at military teaching hospitals. I just couldn't handle my husband's entire squadron seeing my lady bits .
bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago
My husband stopped to clean his tennis shoes. Thankfully we were at his mom's a just retired ob/gyn nurse. I love and admire her. I didn't want to be a wuss. I got sent home with my older son 15 years before. On the other hand.......When I said it's time to go. It was. Only nice thing, I knew she coulda brought her youngest grandbaby into the world ok. We made it with them holding me back and a half hour to spare.
Veronica Sjöberg 4 years ago
I dont really get the panic of "only two people there?" With my number 2 and 3 we only had one person present - the midwife. And thats pretty common. But could be different with a pre-term birth? Or do people in US usually have a lot of medical staff there?
V Michael Lazar 4 years ago
There was only three medical staff in the entire center, with a person coding and a pre-term labor. From how I understand it, a Code Blue usually has six minimum in the room. The labor, probably, obstetrician, birth attendant, labor nurse, pediatrician, and NICU nurse. (I'm not a medical expert, so could be very wrong.)
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#5
This is actually my grandfather's birth sometime in the 1920s: my great grandma was giving birth at home, on the reservation (Apache), and as the labor kicked in full swing, a crow or raven landed on the windowsill.
Now, this is a bad omen, it means someone is going to die or has died. Needless to say, my great x2 aunts and great grandma's mother started straight tripping, shooing the bird and whatnot. Bird would not f*ck off, looked at my great grandma and squawked.
Grandpa was born a few minutes later, while someone is trying to get the crow to go away. Crow flies off the minute the baby cries. A few minutes later, someone rode up on horseback to tell everyone that my great great grandfather had passed away about 15 minutes beforehand. That was right when the crow had landed on the sill.
Family legend says that grandpa was his reincarnation.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
In Cherokee culture, it is the owl that is the messenger of death. If it hoots three times, you're in trouble.....
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Cherokee Eastern Nation or Oklahoma, or both? I"m asking b/c I'm only familiar with Eastern Nation. Thank you.
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Lena Maya Bruckner 4 years ago
In my culture ravens are seen as messengers. Can be good, bad or neutral.. Just checking on what's happening.
Unaffected 4 years ago
What a beautiful story. Sounds to me he made sure the baby is all right then went on his way to eternity . They are, after all, one of the world's most intelligent birds
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Love stories like this. I completely believe the ones from American Indians.
Pheebs 4 years ago
My great grandfather was brought to the hospital the same day my mom went in to labor, and she was about a month early. Child born in distress (cord wrapped, not breathing), GG in having trouble breathing. Child not doing well for 2 days, but pulls through, GG making a turn for the worst and passing away about the same time. Great grandma swore grandpa died so the child could live - really helped her with the grief.
Immortal Emperor Paradox 4 years ago (edited)
Everyone knows that a crow means Li Qiye, the Dark Hand Behind The Curtains, the Sacred Teacher, and the Prime Emperor who's eventually going to defeat the Old Villainous Heavens!
#6
I was once present at the birth of a very white baby to not white parents. The parents spoke a different language to staff and there was this awkward silence while staff tried desperately not to exchange eye contact or stare at the father for his reaction. After a while, it was obvious that the father either hadn't noticed or didn't care, as he looked delighted and was chatting to the mother happily.
Subsequently determined albinism ran in the man's family.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Since this is coming up in a lot of comments: Skin tone isn't like a PUnnett square in high school biology. Children and parents often don't share skin *tone*, or exact "color", and it's just the roll of the DNA dice.
K 4 years ago
Also Albinism is a recessive gene, so both parents were carriers.
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Nicki 4 years ago
LOL! This kind of happened to me. The hubs was deployed to Iraq and my mom was with me in the delivery room while I was giving birth to my first born. When my son was finally out, the room got really quiet. I am fairly light-skinned African-American and the staff automatically assumed that my deployed spouse was also Black, so when my white looking son came out they were all shocked. My mom saw this and was like, "oh, don't worry, her husband is white" and they all visibly relaxed and chuckled a little. This was in 2005 😂
Kat Anne 4 years ago
I have a friend who is very, very dark skinned and had a very white baby. Apparently the doctor kinda paled when the baby was born and looked worried. I can just imagine the expression when later the albino father and brother visited. According to my friend, he did have a momentary "Why is she so pale? Followed by a "ooooooo"
H Edwards 4 years ago
I think most babies, especially if they are mixed race or one parent has a much lighter skin tone than the other, are often more on the pale side when they are born. The skin tone at birth doesn't necessarily reflect what it will be as they get older.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
Also, with babies of colour, they are not born as dark as they are going to be eventually. Brown/black babies are born pretty pale and their full colour usually takes a few days to come in. So no black person is going to be shocked if they see quite a pale baby coming out.
LuckyL 4 years ago
My midwife told me, that she spend some time in africa to volunteer and that she was pretty shocked when she saw the first newborn - because she didn't know that the skin tone darkens - she thought that she was about to witness some imense family drama right away
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Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
You'd think staff would know better. Maybe if Healthcliff weren't an obstetritian, you'd guess Claire and Healthcliff Huxtable had awkward looks back and forth when they had their oldest daughter.
Paula Hannon 4 years ago
These twins exist and it's wild https://nypost.com/2015/03/02/meet-the-bi-racial-twins-no-one-believes-are-sisters/
Some time ago, nurse Holly gave me some in-depth insights about her job and how some parents, especially dads, behave while their partners are in labor.
“On average I would say that approximately 1 in 10 are unsupportive and/or insensitive dads. There tend to be a lot more dads that don’t know how to support their significant others in labor, but I wouldn’t say those dads are insensitive, they just need guidance," Holly told Bored Panda during an earlier interview.
“As a nurse in Labor and Delivery we do a lot of coaching and educating the support person to help their significant others through labor,” Holly said that a nurse’s job involves a lot of human contact and communication.
"Their place and presence in the labor/delivery room is noticeable and can be iconic for your laboring wife or significant other. It’s okay to not know what to do, but being mentally and emotionally present is essential," the nurse explained that anyone who is in the delivery room to support the mom is playing a vital role.
#7
Doctor here, I have only ever 'delivered' one baby...(sorry for formatting, on my phone) So I'm in medical school on my obstetric rotation. I'm doing a late night shift cuz I just want to see some births (labor lasts forever, yo). 20s something schizophrenic woman comes in, laboring with her 6th child. Her mother apparently has custody of the other kids, kind of a sad situation. Police had to break her door down because she went into labor and continuously screamed "I'm not giving birth to Satan's baby! This is Satan's baby!" The doctor I'm with looks unamused and just says to the nurse "sedate her a bit, we'll do a c section if she refused to push, etc". After about 30 minutes and some sedating drugs the doctor tells me to go in and do a pelvic exam and to report to him how far along things are. He went in with me, and then got called out as I'm putting on gloves, saying he'll be back in a minute. I introduce myself to the patient, explain what I'm doing and start the examination. I feel a contracting sensation and next thing I know a baby's head pushes my hands out and I'm holding a screaming newborn. I am so in shock I am just staring at the baby and I start to feabily scream, "I, uh, need, uh, some help here!" Everything was well with the baby and mom. I had to throw away my socks and shoes. I forgot the best part, where the mother goes, "what's your name, I'll name it after you!" It was a boy, I'm female, she insisted I give her my name. I didn't want to screw up this kids life so I said Henry.
Na Schi 4 years ago
Sad story with a good ending... but the sheer amount of untreated people with mental problems bothers me to no end. (Just because the US has a nonfunctional health care system).
Davja 4 years ago
Pretty sure "I'm not giving birth to Satan's baby!" is regularly yelled in the bathrooms at Taco Bell.
Charlotte Rohrer 4 years ago
I think this got missed cuz it's hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
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Christina Rosetti 4 years ago (edited)
It's sad that someone THAT mentally unwell, who lost custody of all of her 5 previous children, was not prevented from future pregnancies via arm implant birth control or iud.
Katchen 4 years ago
The flip side of this situation can skirt dangerously close to eugenics. While it’s sad, it’s a hard problem to fix without dropping into “Three generations of imbeciles are enough” territory.
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Veronica Sjöberg 4 years ago
This is sad and wonderful. But how do you "refuse to push" with child 2,3,4 etc? You can't. They push themself out.
Charlotte Rohrer 4 years ago
Who knows, something made the doc say it and he/she, has prolly seen it all.
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#8
Baby daddy is so exicited about the birth. We ask mom if she wants to do skin to skin bonding with the baby. She says yes. We go to put baby on her chest and baby daddy rips his shirt off and is stoked to do skin to skin. A for effort dude!
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
And if memory serves me correctly, it only cost $39.95 in the United States.
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Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
Skin to skin is awesome, but it’s an important key for establishing breastfeeding so, ideally, should happen with the mum first.
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Sarah Sparkles 4 years ago
My husband did skin to skin when my son was in the NICU. He also enthusiastically volunteered to change the first diaper. If he's that involved he will be a great father like my husband.
El muerto 4 years ago
it was the greatest moment for me to...kept doing it until baby wasn't baby anymore
Ray Martin 4 years ago
That's what I did with my daughter. In fact my wife insisted on it, not that I needed persuasion. It's one of my favourite pictures.
#9
This was a nice intense, and for the record, I'm a midwife. In Australia and the UK, midwives deliver the vast majority of babies. Anyway. there was a woman who was in labour with her fifth child, she and her husband already had four girls. She knew that they were having a boy, but he didn't (he hadn't wanted to know the gender). He really, really wanted a boy, not for sexist reasons or anything like that, and I know that he was a wonderful father to his daughters and wouldn't treat the son any different, but he just wanted a son. He sat in the corner, reading the paper for basically the whole birth. He wasn't ignoring his wife or anything, she didn't want him to touch her while she was in labour, that was just how she went about birthing (she also didn't want the midwives to touch her, so we stayed as hands off as possible). When the baby was finally born she broke out in a sweaty grin, looked at me and said, 'Tell him.' I told him that the baby was a boy and he raced around the bed to give his wife a hug and a kiss and to meet his firstborn son. He was crying and laughing and just absolutely overjoyed by the birth of the baby. That was a good birth :)
Beatum Puer 4 years ago
My husband also really wanted a boy. When he visited me in the hospital after I gave birth to our daughter, he asked me if I could trade her for a boy :-(. I have never forgotten it, even after 30 years.
Celina Knippling 4 years ago
Giddiest I ever saw my dad was when my youngest sibling and only brother (out of five kids) was born. He was so happy that he rented a VCR and Raiders of the Lost Ark & the cartoon LOTR for us that night (he had never done that before). Also, yes, I said rented a VCR. Back then you could get a machine to watch your videos with because they were too expensive for many people to own (plus we were right in the middle of the Betamax VHS Battle and nobody wanted to buy until a winner was crowned).
Otter 4 years ago (edited)
I have a cousin who was the only boy, after six girls. He was the moist spoiled kid I met during my entire childhood, the one who had the $10,000 stereo in his own room when his sisters were sleeping 3 to a room and wearing hand-me-downs, and he grew up to be a complete asshole.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
When my daughter was born, the staff asked both of us if I wanted to be in the room. We looked at each other and we both said "NO" in unison. It was very likely to be a cesarean (it was) and neither my wife or I wanted any part of that. She didn't want me there and I was glad of that. Still, it was the most confusing, wonderful, draining night of my life, and I did very little. My wife was just glad it was over.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
Sexist perhaps as his contribution decided on the sex at conception..but very normal for wanting son to carry on the name..or whatever men expect..It is an ageless custom
"Labor is no easy task, and it comes in all variations. Talk with your partner about their expectations and desires during labor, be adaptable as things progress, and be mentally and emotionally supportive of them. I guarantee your experience in the labor room will be unforgettable and you will develop more appreciation for your significant other during labor,” she said.
"I fell in love with L&D when I had my first child, and I knew this was where I needed to be. I am inspired daily when I work with my patients as to just how incredibly strong women are. I love being able to support women during this time by encouraging, laughing, praying, and even crying with them and still being able to guide them through a moment in their life they will never forget."
#10
Oh. Friends a midwife. Baby comes out looking very very Asian to an apparently white couple. Lots of umms and looks.
Turns out that the father was mixed race on his mums side and she never mentioned it.
White Wolf 4 years ago (edited)
That's why you f*****g don't ummm and look. Honestly, one would expect more professionality - and experience in how genes can be inherited - from delivery staff. We're all white in my family but my great grandpa was dark skinned like a gypsy, so yeah, it can resurface again. EDIT: I am from Hungary and I am quite taken aback that there are lands where gypsy is considered a slur.
Iampenny 4 years ago
who's to say the "umms and looks" were from the delivery staff?
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Fritz Baumeister 4 years ago
My brother's wife is Ashkenazi Jewish with typical dark brown eyes. My brother also has brown eyes. It was rather a surprise when their daughter was born with blue eyes. While it was no mystery where the blue-eyed genes came from on my brother's side of the family, hers took a bit of digging - apparently she'd had a blue-eyed grandfather, she'd never got to meet.
Michelle Carlson 4 years ago
I'm not sure why this is anyone's business. I'll be glad when we can get past the focus on race.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Especially since we are all just one race with different skin tones ...
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On my dad’s side of the family, there’s generally one kid who deviates from the prototypical “blond hair blue eye” template that seems to dominate the greater family. My youngest sister was the one kid in our family - not hugely different. Just a slightly darker skin shade and dark brown hair. My grandpa took one look at her the first time he saw her and said something about the “ in the woodpile”. My mom is (justifiably) pissed to this day even four decades later. In case anyone is wondering, 23 & Me and Ancestry.com tests both show she’s 100% my father’s daughter, so no, there was no Ethnic Slur in the woodpile.
Cydney Golden 4 years ago
Not the business of the birthing staff to speculate on a baby's genes. We should be past crap like this by now.
Bettye McKee 4 years ago
My daughter was jaundiced at birth. I was told she had too many red blood cells and it would resolve itself. It did.
CanadianaKa 4 years ago
We're Eastern and Northern European Jews through and through in my family. Blonds, redheads, brunettes, fine and wavy hair at most. One of my nieces has the thickest, curliest, deeeeeeeep brown hair and olive skin. More than once she and her sister have been asked if they have the same father. Genetics are wonderful. We know that one side of our family arrived in the Netherlands fleeing the inquisition in the 15th century. We figure she inherited older genes. But no one ummed and gave funny looks.
#11
Holy cow, have I got a story for you. I’m not a doctor. This was my husband’s birth in 1944. His mom was in labor in a small town birthing home. It was literally in the local doctor’s home. Mom was in a back room with the doctor and a nurse. My husband’s dad was in the waiting room (living room). The doctor came out and told dad there were complications: he could save mom or save the baby. Dad had to choose. My father-in-law got up, walked out, got a gun out of his truck and came back in. He pointed the gun at the doctor and said both better live or the doctor wouldn’t. Then dad sat down on the couch with the gun in his lap. I’ve tried to imagine that doctor’s state of mind at that moment. He went back into the room with the laboring mother and ended up pulling the baby out with forceps. Mother and baby lived. So did the doctor. My husband’s skull is a testament to this story. It’s like craters on the moon. I’m grateful he’s never gone bald.
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
What a roller coaster ride! Lord!!! Happy everything "came out" OK. And bless your heart regarding your husband's head. :)
Blue 4 years ago
doctors try their best regardless of threats to their life. they just had the decency of asking the father to choose in case worse come to worst. I HATE THIS STORY what is this a gangster movie???!!!???
Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
You sure about that? My little brother had an operation done on his genitals when he was a year old (his urethra had to be corrected). While he was in recovery the medical staff went on strike and there was no one taking care of the patients, no one would change his bandages no matter how much my parents begged. In the end when my brother was on the verge of developing gangrene my dad took his gun and threatened the surgeon into cleaning and redressing his wounds. He could have had permanent damage due to negligence. Doctors are human and unfortunately some of them are pos. Btw, we're not in the US. My dad has a gun bcs of his job.
Load More Replies... J. Normal 4 years ago
And then grandpa, was arrested and sent to prison for death threats? If not This is one of the reasons we have so many school shootings , bad actions with weapons are almost NEVER punished.
Na Schi 4 years ago
What a f****d up tell... threatening the doctor?!! However, seems like nothing had changed since 1944. Guns will always provide you what you're asking for.
Lainie 4 years ago
And also, the stuff that you're not asking. This was the happy end.
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Mary Jeffries 4 years ago
That’s not ok to threaten medical personnel. We take that very seriously these days, thank goodness. I’ve had some patients say they were just joking and I tell them if they say anything else like that they’ll have charges pressed.
Otter 4 years ago (edited)
What was probably really going on was that the doctor was thinking that he might have to do a C-section, and that the mother was unlikely to survive a c-section in the doctor's home. That was what doctors (not midwives) were telling husbands in centuries past, when they asked which to save, they meant that the only way to save the baby was to perform a c-section without antibiotics or anesthesia, which was a death sentence for the mother. And this, BTW, was why physicians and not midwives attended queens and not midwives, because physicians could save the baby, the heir, when a midwife could not. Amazing to think this was still going on in 1944, when hospitals existed and a woman with access to good medical care could survive one.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Probably depends on what country they were in whether there were hospitals handy.
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Oopsydaisy 4 years ago
Pretty sure this is an urban legend. I've read this story on several different forums with different states and details. For non Americans, just another example of how Americans think guns solve everything.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Pretty sure this has happened more than once IRL. "Urban legend" based in truths.
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Lulu Lemons 4 years ago
I am not ok with this story it is not sweet it is horrific and that father was extreme and in the wrong
#12
Obligatory not a doctor, but when my nephew was born, he was so ugly my sister didn't want to hold him, saying, serious as f**k, "put it back in, it's obviously not ready yet"
She loves him to bits now, but we never let either of then forget it
Na Schi 4 years ago
It more than harsh to tell a child that it had been ugly at birth!!! What's the point in doing so?
Trillian 4 years ago
Have you ever seen a freshly squeezed newborn? They ARE ugly. Red, squished, covered in you-name-it. Guess she was just surprised.
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Patti Vance 4 years ago
frankly, the only babies that don't look like an orange left in the sun to dry are those born by c-section as they don't have to be squeezed out as if they are part of a playdoh fun factory
Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
Ha! My sister-in-law and I were discussing pre-baby how they kind of look like little aliens when they come out (for those who have only seen babies in advertisements, that's the cute phase. The just come out phase, they are red, wrinkled, cone-headed, etc. Like, love them anyway, but they're kind of grub-looking at first). Well, she ended up having a hard labor and an emergency c-section with one of her kids, and I guess she was kind of loopy, because they handed her the baby and she started crying hysterically, "Oh, thank God, she doesn't look like an alien!".
Laura Jackson 4 years ago (edited)
A friend of mine and I were discussing the births of our sons. We hadn't met until both boys were 7-8 yrs old. She insists that her son was the ugliest baby when born she had ever seen and she had cried for months until he started filling out and getting the baby fat cheeks, etc. I kept saying that all babies are beautiful. She whips out a picture and I swear she didn't lie at all. The poor dear looked like one of those aliens they call grays. He did become a very cute little boy that never left on the mothership!
Big Chungus 4 years ago
My pediatrician for my future kid gave me a whole set of documents explaining the weird way babies will look at birth and it may take them a couple days to start looking like a real baby lol
buttonpusher 4 years ago (edited)
Lol maybe she was high on gas? One of mine had a seriously smushed face for the first while and I couldn't stop laughing. "Look at the little hairy ears like a baby warewolf!"
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
The first words my son heard were, "Oh my God... he's ADORABLE!!!" But it WAS a little bit out of surprise. He was premature, plus I'd always heard how babies were kinda nasty before they were cleaned up and had a chance to breathe air.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
Ooh dear. Mother love did not kick in ..poor kid will know too and could get a real complex!
#13
Not a doctor but a fire fighter. Got called for a pregnancy, baby already born. Get on scene and mom and daughter (who just gave birth) are arguing back and forth. Mom summed her argument up best with "I told ya you was pregnant"
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
It's possible to be pregnant and not show at all. My mom stayed a size 8 and never needed maternity clothes. People were astounded when she suddenly turned up with a new baby!
Patti Vance 4 years ago
after several miscarriages and doctors telling me i couldn't get pregnant again i went for annual pap and was told i was pregnant and....about 6 months along. so, yes, it can happen
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Not A Panda 4 years ago
Wife of a colleague of mine was 52 and in menopause. So she thought. Gained a bit of weight, but eh, it's expected at that time of life, things shift and change. Delivered a baby girl on the way home from holiday.
Huddo's sister 4 years ago
The 'It's just menopause' trope that drama shows like :)
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Steve Ramaekers 4 years ago
I get that some women continue to have periods, may have minimal hormonal effects like morning sickness etc but having carried and birthed children I’ve never understood how you could not know in late pregnancy. You are stuffed full of a moving human.
Not A Panda 4 years ago
Some babies hardly move and some women have really strong abdominal walls. Pregnancy isn't the same for for every woman. My mum looked like she was carrying twins and it was just me. My DIL had the tiniest bump until just before her due date. She's an athlete. It all depends on how your body is.
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
We can assume that "mom and daughter" here does *not* refer to the pregnant woman and the newborn.
Karen Kaiser 3 years ago
Neighbor had two girls unless you saw her from the front you wouldn't believe she was pregnant. Stomach about the size of a basketball both times.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
hahahahah surprised new mum?This does happen quite often as well. no signs off pregnancy until birthing time!
#14
Husband was sitting in the corner playing candy crush on his wife’s phone whilst she was in labour, up popped a text message saying “does he know that it might not be his?”. Shouting ensued and he walked out and left the unit with her crying.
El muerto 4 years ago
is funny how, she cheating on him is not as bad, as he playing candy crush in the comments...where are all the moralist who condemn cheating? is the gender of the cheater the problem?
Rachael Sampson 4 years ago
No one talked about it. Cheating is terrible no matter who does it
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Mary Bricklin 4 years ago
That's a horrible way for any man to find out something like that. Poor guy...
plain bOrEd not panda 4 years ago
It could be anybody for any reason. I am always amazed at people that randomly see some random sh*t from a random stranger and walk out on their spouse as if they don't know and trust them at all at least to hear an explanation. Of course I would think otherwise I guess if I already had my suspicions something was fishy. But again, why not confront them as soon as they feel something is off?
Marnie 4 years ago
This might be a different case. The text message was directed at the wife, so....it makes no sense it would mean anything other than what it seems.
Load More Replies... Philip Barrett 3 years ago
I would have left, called/stopped on the way out to talk to her mother tell her that she will be staying with her indefinitely and have her father come get her stuff.
Briana Landers 4 years ago
They both dont seem like the best people. This will be better for the baby in the long run if theyre apart
Question everything 4 years ago
What do you mean both? Just because the husband was killing boredom during birth (can be as long as 48 hours) it doesn't make him bad. It was the wife that cheated.
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One from a colleague of mine. One woman during her second stage (where you’re cervix is fully dilated and you can push the baby out) started pushing. As she did she passed what has been described to me as an utterly massive, 7.5 couric-worthy s**t, that just kept coming. The midwives had to receive it on a large pad and place it quickly on the nearest place which was the baby resuscitaire, as it was still coming. They then went back to the woman to catch the rest and clean up. As they moved back over to her she panicked and asked “is it breathing?!”. They had to get the husband to tell her it wasn’t the baby she’d passed.
Enea 4 years ago
Many women have bowel movement at the onset of labour, so an amount like this one is not terribly common. What is common, though, is to s**t on the delivery table, at least a little bit. I had this bit of information very present through each of the three births I gave. Midwives don't talk about it when it happens, but it's still mortifying.
Lila Launehase 4 years ago
It happened twice to me but I really didn't care. Had other "problems" at that point. But I know that midwifes know that the baby is coming soon when it happens. Because.. you know. There is not much space there and what's in the way has to get out.
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kathoco 4 years ago
I have a friend who teaches English to midwives and he asked them about this. They said it happens a lot and in general, they try to hide it from the dad. And if the mom asks if she defecated, they lie and tell her no.
LuckyL 4 years ago
why should they lie. I think it's part of the problem to act like it's something embarassing - I was really scard to poop while giving birth, maybe that was what scard me most about the whole thing. I just figuered out after this, that it happens to nearly everyone and it's just part of the process
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A Jones 4 years ago
I've heard that deliveries can be a real s**t show. hahahaaaa I'll show myself out.
Patti Vance 4 years ago
not an uncommon occurrence though the quantity may have been impressive. this is why they used to give enemas to women in labor but that seems almost like an inquisition torture technique as who needs pressure going in when there is pressure going out.
Claire 4 years ago
I was a midwife for many years, and we are very discreet when ‘cleaning up’. Many times the mother doesn’t even realised they have pooped. We cover it up and hide it before they realise. I’ve had to kick a few support people who started making “Ewww! You pooped!” noises. Pooping is an excellent sign that Mum is pushing properly. My funniest poop story is of a father who got overly involved in trying to coach his wife in pushing. He accidentally gave birth to his own little turd baby. He had been in the shower earlier with his wife and his clothes were wet, so I gave him some scrubs, so he was wearing scrubs without undies. He went over to the corner of the room, shook his leg, and the little nugget rolled out. I pretended not to notice, then cleaned up when they were distracted after the baby was born. I saw him looking in the corner for his turd baby later on.
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
I have to say, I was really impressed at how discreet and sensitive midwives were with poo at my birth and friends’ births I attended. It just wasn’t even a thing they mentioned or anything. It’s funny how what seems to be one of the biggest fear for women and what people seem to love telling stories about doesn’t even register on the radar for the midwives.
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Moezzzz 4 years ago
That's why we always kept a biohazard garbage can under the legs, bc we no longer do the enemas! Much easier to let it fall into a can, than to let it come in contact with the baby!!
Angela Jester 4 years ago
*You* push a watermelon past your pooper and see how well you keep it in! All those muscles are contracting. Birth is messy. You pee, you s**t,you bleed.
buttonpusher 4 years ago
Apparently this is really common, they just clean up quick. Most women don't even realize. Lol with me it was my waters exploding and I sat bolt upright "Was that it?!". Midwife only managed to dodge out of the way. "No, baby is still in there" "Aw FFS!"
#16
When I was an intern we had a woman who was 8 months pregnant get crushed in a subcompact vs truck collision. Mom was pulseless on scene so EMS brought her in hot (ie, ongoing chest compressions, very unstable). We had about a 60 second warning in the ED to get the OBGYN crash team and the NICU response team down. It was clear mom wasn't going to make it. Blunt trauma arrests in the field survive about 1% of the time under the best of conditions. But we had to try to keep her alive so we could do a perimortem C-section to get the kid out. I was on the trauma team, so while I was working on trying to keep mom's circulation going to perfuse the uterus OB started the perimortem section. We opened the chest to start internal compressions and see if there was an aortic injury we could temporize. Sections are usually fast; perimortem sections are faster. From skin cut to baby out and over to NICU team was about 45 seconds. They started CPR because baby was severely bradycardic and essentially dead. That's when we found baby #2. Turns out mom was having twins. Now, in retrospect in turns out this twin had died in utero earlier and this was a known problem, but we didn't know that immediately. I joined the impromptou NICU team #2 as we tried to save #2. But it became clear this was futile and we abandoned efforts and turned all our resources to baby #1. We worked on that baby for over an hour but never was really able to get to a stable place. We were able to get the baby to the NICU but unfortunately arrested again and could not be resuscitated shortly after getting there. Likely catastrophic hemorrhage. The husband and father, who was in the car as well, was physically fine. He had some minor contusions. But when he told him what happened, that he had just lost essentially his whole family, poor man just collapsed. There was no crying, screaming, he just went down like a sack of potatoes. The expression on his face, though, with such immense sorrow and pain and suffering. I will never forget it.
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 4 years ago (edited)
I hope for his sanity that he wasn't responsible for the accident
Anna Snorrepot 4 years ago
you don't. You give up and essentially let your body breathe for you. Moment by moment until time passes and then you slowly find yourself in a new, awful world and you learn to live in it.
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Noel Bovae 4 years ago
This is why I get so mad at reckless/distracted drivers. You could destroy an entire family so quickly and easily. Slow down and pay attention, so that EVERYONE that's on the road gets home safely.
C W 4 years ago
Or under substances. I was an ED nurse, lots of stories like this. The person under the influence is often just fine while the ones they hit are not.
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I worked as a hospital parking attendant manning the booth. A car pulled up and the woman was mid way pushing out her baby in the passenger seat. One relative in the back was giving her a back massage, one was fanning her, her kid was playing on his DS, and her husband in the driver seat nonchalantly smiled at me and asked for one ticket all while the mother just delivered her own baby looking calmed like it was a perfunctory task. I didn't know what to do so I just gave them free parking.
#18
The way my dad tells it, part way through labor with me my mum said "that's it, I'm done, I'm going home" and tried to get off the table. Mum claims not to remember this.
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
A fairly common reaction, I believe. Once the heavy contractions hit me, I remember thinking very clearly that I'd totally changed my mind about this whole labor thing, and I'd like to go straight home, please and thank you.
Donna Leske 4 years ago
with my first I suddenly shouted "I'M NOT DOING THIS!"
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Hermione 4 years ago
I looked at my husband and thought it was his turn, he could take over the labour. In my exhausted brain it was a a very real possibility.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
I love that. Reminds me of this sketch https://youtu.be/-77S-RGJlq8
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Sean Glynn 4 years ago
My wife was similar. Her epidural wore off right before her hard contractions started, so she decided to skip having another, as staff told her it might prolong the birth. While my son was coming out, she begged me " please stop this! I want to go home. Just make it stop and take me home! Please!"in a heart wrenching voice. As if to oblige her (and he is still an extremely helpful young man) our son popped out right then.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
To quote my one friend when I rushed in, saying, "OMG, you're having the baby!"... Her erply was "Like hell I am, how do we stop this?"
Eunice Probert 4 years ago
I did that. I said that if the baby didn't come out with the next push, I was off home. And when the midwife told me to push, I replied, "what do you think I'm doing? Waiting for the number 9 bus?"
Mary Beth Miller 4 years ago
When I was about 7 months pregnant I was in bed and I suddenly freaking out when I "realized" exactly what was in store for me when it comes time to deliver the baby. I sat up and told my husband " I changed my mind, I don't want to do this."
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Yep, I said I would come back tomorrow morning to finish having the baby, and pulled some line right out of my arm getting ready to leave (the nurses jumped on it as whatever line it was I removed started shooting blood like a water gun 😬), like I could just leave the labour process in the room 😳
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Women go through a transition period when giving birth. This happens quite close to the actual baby coming out time. At this point, it is quite common for women to say they are done, or that they can't do it, or that they don't want to give birth, or yes, even that they're going home. It's not certain why this happens, but it happens and is a well known medical phenomenon.
#19
My first baby was born by emergency c-section and spent 5 weeks in the NICU. I wanted to try for a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) with my second. I was given a foley bulb induction at 39 weeks and 5 days. They put the bulb into my cervix and expanded it with fluid, and then it slowly expanded my cervix as it fell out. That took about 12 hours and was quite painful. Then I was given pitocin, but they cranked it up too high and I was having 6 or 7 contractions in a ten minute period and I was only at 5cm. They tried to turn it down. I got an epidural and was trying to get some rest when my shoulders started to hurt. I mentioned that I wished the epidural was in my neck so I wouldn't feel my shoulder pain, which I assumed was from lying on my side. My husband says at that point I passed out as my blood pressure dropped and about seven doctors and nurses rushed into the room. They pumped me full of epinephrine and stuff. They thought I was having an amniotic embolism or a heart attack. I got rushed to a c-section. I remember thinking, as they were pushing me down the hall, that the movies get it totally right. The lights on the ceiling did that streaming by thing they show in movie scenes. They opened me up to discover that my uterus had ruptured and my baby's hand was coming through into my stomach cavity, which was full of blood and amniotic fluid. It was quite gruesome. Baby was fine, but my husband was convinced I was going to die. I didn't, obviously. I was bitterly disappointed about not doing a VBAC and I've had people ask me why I "chose" to have a c-section many times. It has really done a number on me emotionally.
rumade 4 years ago
Even if you had "chosen" to have a C-section, it's no one's business but yours! Why are people so judgemental? It's a miracle you survived these two births.
KatKaleen 4 years ago
I can't even think of a situation where I would ask a woman how she gave birth. Like... how is that information I should know?
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jodie kavanagh 4 years ago (edited)
There is a very real issue with the preasure on women to have a "natural" birth. I remember having a c-section and feeling incredibly guilty and like I failed or something. Why do we do this to ourselves and why do we let others do this to us? Older, I have a real f-u attitude to anyone who tries to look down on me for anything.
J. Normal 4 years ago
My doctor actually apologized for me having to have a c. I still do not understand it. For me it was necessary, and it turned out fine. I gave birth, I am a REAL mother ( would be even if I did not give birth), so these judgmental biddies can shove it where they should get fcked (up the a**e).
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
You don't choose! OMG, C-sections are not the easy option. It's not like you get a tiny scar or something... Frankly, even in modern ORs they seem barbaric AF, it's traumatizing to mothers, and a ruptured uterus is potentially *lethal* even if the patient is already in hospital.
Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
It's not always traumatizing to moms. I had a maternal request C-section and it was the best experience I ever had.
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HorrorEyeArcade 4 years ago
why do people care if you have a c-section or not? birth is birth.
Betsy Gee 4 years ago
I agree. I don’t have children but have always felt this way. You’re a real mom either way and there are pros and cons to both—all need recovery time, epidural or not, still a real mom/birth. It’s ridiculous. I was an emergency C-Section, my husband was a planned one, due to his brother being a c-section. I know more women with c-sections than vaginal births. All are amazing women.
Load More Replies... Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
This has got to stop. It's a woman's decision whether she wants to give birth vaginally, by C-section, VBAC, whatever. I had a maternal request C-section and it was the best thing I ever did. The pressure on women to give birth as "naturally" as possible - even when they might not want to - is idiotic. If that's your goal, okay, cool. But remember that when women gave birth all "naturally" all the time, A LOT OF WOMEN AND BABIES DIED. C-sections saved the lives of so many of my friends and family that if anyone ever dared say something to them about, "Oh, how disappointing you didn't ACTUALLY give birth", I will reply, "Oh, how disappointing they chose to give birth to a live baby and live to see it!"
Gillian Mackenzie 4 years ago
That's a really traumatic birth experience - I really hope this lady got the emotional support she needed after it
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I know many women that don't want to try for a second baby because of a very traumatic birth experience!! Psychological support should be provided all the times for sure
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Sam NE 4 years ago
Anyone that criticizes you for having a c-section is truly evil and ignorant. Same for people that say not breastfeeding your baby makes you a bad mom. It doesn't matter how your child came into this world or became your child or how you feed your child. You are a mother and not having a vaginal birth was the best for you and your child. And FYI I had a vaginal birth for both my youngest and breastfed and that doesn't make me any more or less a mother than you. Hugs
Marco Conti 4 years ago
What business is of anyone to inquire about your "choice" of getting a C-section? There was a woman on reddit claiming that women that had a C-section were not "real mothers". I was never aware of this madness, but now I am, and I feel like visiting these people to slap them real hard. Being a parent has very little to do with the birthing process. It's all that happens later that count. Idiots.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
This obsession about c-sectins vs naturals births needs to f*cking stop!
#20
The baby’s father was caught cracking open the anesthesia cart and stealing meds. When police officers came to arrest him, he was sobbing and kept saying over and over “y’all aren’t going to let me see my baby be born?” and the officers were both like um nope should’ve thought about that before
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
This is always fun. You get this a lot more than you think. If you wonder why care is slow and crazy at times? We're guarding the meds carts.
J. Normal 4 years ago
And I felt guilty about thinking about swiping a PAIR of exam gloves. ( before pandemic so no shortage of ppe) I still did not do it.
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Kimberly Brown 4 years ago
Oh no. A parent broke the law and was separated from their child? How barbaric! (sarcasm is fluent in this one)
#21
Ambulance officer here.
Got dispatched to "17 year old female, difficult pregnancy. Caller statement: Baby born, didn't know was pregnant. Can't find umbilical cord."
Whooooa boy...
Get there, healthy baby girl born. Mother and grandmother sitting on floor, blood everywhere. Both emotionally shocked. Umbilical cord right where it should be. Grandmother holding baby, outstretches arms and hands me the baby without words while my partner checks out mum.
Grandma comes to me and just says "I thought she was a virgin!"
Mother had texted grandmother while at work to say "Mum, come home, I've had a baby."
The tension in that room... Holy cr*p.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I gotta say, I've been scared this would happen to me at some point. Don't know why I was worried; I really am a virgin XD.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Should have taught about contraceptives instead forcing abstinence .
Otter 4 years ago
There's always the possibility that the girl's role in the conception wasn't voluntary, and that's why she wasn't prepared.
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Grace and Lucy 4 years ago
How could the mother of the 17 year old not see the physical change her daughter was going through ?
Marco Conti 4 years ago
That's pretty much what I think happened with the "Immaculate Conception".
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago (edited)
The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary's conception without original sin.
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When I was having a c section I was jamming out to Journey looped on the epidural. I noticed that people started walking around carefully and my husband turned kind of green, but everyone’s response was “it’s okay, you’re doing great, baby’s great, just finishing up!” Only after I was in recovery did they tell me the end of the suction tube came loose and sprayed blood all over the floor and everyone was covered in it and leaving bloody footprints everywhere. Lol, good times.
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Why don't more Birthing center play Salt N Pepa's Push it. Thank you and good night.
April Stephens 4 years ago
I can't believe this is all the way down at number 25! This is hilarious!
RandomBeing 4 years ago
Yeah. This one and the why does it smell like poop? one have been the funniest for me
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Starfall 4 years ago
This happened during my c-section too! The anesthesiologist knocked the tube loose & no one noticed immediately. My mom, who was with me, had to discreetly get a nurse's attention and tell her. Of course the nurse shouted "oh my god!", so there was really no point in being discreet so that I wouldn't know.
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
I remember during my C-section, the epidural started to wear off somewhat and I asked "Is it normal for me to feel you pinching, pulling and tugging down there?". And apparently the answer was "no", because the anesthesiologist ramped up my meds so hard, I couldn't feel my legs for 12 hours after.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
No. NOPE. I don't do blood. Specially of my loved once. I would have fainted.
#23
Father broke down, started yelling at his wife that they can't afford it. She flushes red with anger and embarrassment like "NOW you think is a good moment to bring this up to me? You want me to go back in time for you?" Older child, like 5-6, was in the room too, staring and looking terrified. I tried to calm the father down and he just stormed out. I was delivering a pizza though, not a baby.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
How sad..bad attitude and he was also responsible after all for her being pregnant ...twice
#24
Mom doesn't want to push because she doesn't want to poop. I tell her she better get used to poop because that's what babies do. She pushes and a giant turd comes out, then baby. Then baby poos on the floor as I'm handing him off. Supervising doc asks me why the room smells like s**t.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
My first midwife told me I might poop and not to worry about it. I’ve had three babies and have no idea if I pooped during any delivery. My midwives were very discreet if I did!
Iampenny 4 years ago
It's apparently very common to poop during childbirth, and the nurses / doctors / midwives are normally very discreet about it and it's nothing to be embarrassed about. However, I know I would be mortified if that happened to me. According to my husband, I didn't poop, but sometimes I do wonder if he was telling me a little white lie.
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ForgotMyPWSendHelp 4 years ago
I think that last sentence is made up. I don't believe a doctor would walk into a delivery room and say that. A baby's first poop wouldn't smell, so the doc would obviously be shaming the mom for pooping during labor, which would be really rude and unprofessional.
plain bOrEd not panda 4 years ago
I've seen my fair share of unprofessional and rude doctors, especially around mothers. One particular one told a friend of mine "OMG you're so f* fat, how did a d*ck ever get into there?". For the record, my friend has always been chubby, but not the USA kind of chubby if you know what I mean.
Load More Replies... Patti Vance 4 years ago
reminds me of another bored panda re doctors where there were a lot of student in the or and the doctor stops and asks if anyone farted. no one responds. then the doctor says, if someone farted they better tell me or it means that i perforated the bowel. someone confessed.
J. Normal 4 years ago
My mother was not informed about what push meant ( this was 80yrs ago). When she went into labor she was afraid of sh*tting on the bed, so she clenched instead of pushing. Why we are so afraid of REAL information about sex and birth, yet we happily watch blood and gore from violence.
Big Chungus 4 years ago
I've always heard from labor nurses if the woman poops she is pushing correctly
My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
According to my mother, a retired labor and delivery nurse and childbirth educator, the vast majority of people giving birth defecate during delivery. It's completely normal.
plain bOrEd not panda 4 years ago
If there is something in your intestine, the baby squeezes it out, yes. In my country they do you an enema upon checking in. Some people say it's awful or invasive or stuff, but I felt much more comfortable not being afraid to poop.
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When I was a nursing student doing my OB rotation, a group of us watched our first delivery. There was no time to do an epidural because the baby was ready and he wasn’t waiting.
After the baby’s delivered, the first thing the dad says is ‘You can rub it my ex’s face that you did it natural.’
It wasn’t a huge dramatic thing but everyone in the room just kinda looked at each other. Like buddy, your son was just born and you’re more excited to one up your ex?
LH25 4 years ago
So much wrong with that comment. Yes, the focus on the ex. And the idea that natural birth is somehow one upping any other births.
Auntiecorn 4 years ago
Right! The comment about the ex. And: Natural or not, both are equally impressive!
Load More Replies... Anita Pickle 4 years ago
Devil's advocate.. What if the ex was incredibly mean to the new wife and always cut her down calling her weak and she could never get through labor like she did. Doubt that was the case, but you never know, this story is just a tiny snippet.
Lena Flising 4 years ago
Every birth is different. Who cares if it's "natural" or not? If the ex had a prolonged labor, she NEEDED the epidural. If the current wife came in with half the baby out, there was no time for epidural. Both women gave birth to a child, which is pretty natural, either way. Has he done a "natural" vasectomy?
Leah Helbig 4 years ago
Natural birth isn't that bad I have done it 3 times. Much rather do that then a c section they look like they hurt.
Sakeena 4 years ago
There’s usually a medical reason why a woman has a c-section. Yes it hurts; it’s a major abdominal surgery 🙄 And btw, when people say “natural” they mean without an epidural. Vag birthers are so ignorant and judgmental. I had a vaginal birth without epidural but I’m not an asshole.
Load More Replies... Angela Jester 1 month ago
Why is it a one up to do it without pain meds? How does that make one person better than another? omg
Philip Barrett 3 years ago
This is the dad that teachs his children that women are nothing more than tools to be used.
#26
Im a doctor but this is not my story. There was this couple who were gonna birth their first. The father though had already a child from a previous marrige. So when it was time for labour, instead of being supportive and calm and leaving it to the proffesionals. The father went bats**t and started screaming ”my previous wife wasnt in this much pain, something is wrong”. That is excactly what a woman in labour would like to hear
Na Schi 4 years ago
Funnily how this male, obviously so blind to how a women's body works, has found another woman to set children in this world. I hope she is doing fine and that their child prosper besides its dad cringeworthy unawareness.
Bryn 4 years ago
Think of it this way - he goes through one pregnancy and it's easy. Then he has another one and sees how much pain his wife is in and freaks out, because he didn't think it would hurt that much.
Load More Replies... Patti Vance 4 years ago
my beautiful daughter in law was in labor w/their first but it turned out it was false labor so they were going to send her home. my son went batsh*t crazy to the point that they started to call security. i had to go out and calm the staff down and explain that his first wife had passed away shortly after delivery of his first child so he was just overreacting to the situation. he was so stressed out after that that his wife asked if i could be with her instead of him because she didn't want him to get upset again. one of the reasons i love her so much is that in the middle of all that she didn't want him to relive what he had gone through in case there were any complications. as for my son, i was stuck between sympathy and annoyance because i felt that she really needed him there.
April Stephens 4 years ago
You sound like such a good mother and mother-in-law. ☺️ I hope everything turned out well.
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Peter Spencer 4 years ago
Just hope the kid grows up to be a bit smarter and self-aware than the dad.
#27
Not a doctor but security guard outside delivery room. I just remember cracking up(wtf moment) as one lady was screaming she would not have her baby born on Hitler's birthday.
MellonCollie 4 years ago
Well, poor baby only has 365 days to choose from ... Mine WAS born on April 20 though. It made her worry for a bit that she'd secretly have a super nasty personality too, but hey, of course not!!
Rijkærd 4 years ago (edited)
If I could choose, I'd want mine to be born on 29th Feb...just so I could have a reason to celebrate his/her birthday any day of the year for no-leap yrs...then a freaking big party on the leap yr
V Martinez 4 years ago
My oldest is a Leap Day baby. We used to joke about saving money for 3 years to get something good on the 4th year when he actually had a day for his bday. Or how my now youngest child is older than him! Lol!
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Eve Roling 4 years ago
Many people- especially in europe. It used to be a holiday till 1945.
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Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
I agree it was not ideal but how could she stop the baby anyhow who had nit idea about dates and historical murderers
bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago
I have an April 20th son too. He recently retired after 20 years in the Navy. ;-)
#28
My parents took those birth classes and were ready to go natural, but had the anesthesiologist on standby. After some pretty bad contractions my mom gave in and asked for the epidural. My dad went and talked to the anesthesiologist, came back and whispered in my mom's ear "he said it's 500 for it. In cash". Another contraction came through, and along with it a crack opened on the earth's crust and my mom screamed "FIND A F**KING ATM".
John Dwyer 4 years ago
The more I read about the costs involved in the US medical system, the more relieved I am to live in the UK. A mother would just be given everything she needs for a pain-free birth. What a barbaric system where you have to pay for pain relief.
Sarah@C 4 years ago (edited)
Okay I am always happy to bag on the US healthcare system as that's where I live, but if the anesthesiologist is asking for cash in hand, either he's not in the US or this storyteller is full of poo. They will happily bill you (and have already checked your insurance before they let you in) and an epidural is gonna cost you more like THOUSANDS, but cash on the spot is not how any of this works. If I had to guess, maybe hubby was trying to trick his wife into sticking with natural. Which would be a different kind of messed up.
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Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
Guys... this was a joke. The dad was trying to convince the mom to not get an epidural by claiming, falsely, that it was expensive and needed upfront. That's it's own brand of WTFery, but the anesthesiologist wasn't really asking for money.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
If this one occurred in the US, then that anesthesiologist was a thief. You don't pay cash up front on the spot. You get billed later, often for ten times what you should, but no, you don't hae to give a guy $500 cash. WTF?! Report him to the ethics committee.
Kitty Jordan 4 years ago
It was a joke. The idea is the dad was trying to discourage the mom from getting an epidural (its own brand of WTFery) by claiming it was expensive and upfront.
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Not a doctor but am a midwife. We do home delivery in the US. One labor mom was on the bed just working through the contractions. Dad was sitting next to the bed looking at p*rn. I gave him a look and he knew I caught him. No remorse just angled the screen better. Later on same Dad was just slamming shots and beers. After baby was born he refused to put on the first diaper or hold his daughter. We needed to transfer the baby in due to some blood sugar issues. I go find his drunk ass playing video games in the kitchen. I told him we needed to go in. He was so pissed off he said now?!! Its three in the morning. Yeah dude now. I drove the car because he was so wasted he couldn't even stand. Lots more but thats one of the worst.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
Some people should not be allowed to reproduce. Too late now, I can only hope that he gets his act together.
J. Normal 4 years ago
I hope mom wakes up and kicks his sorry ass out and finds a better role model for the child. MOMs and DADs it is YOUR job to be good role models for your kids, if you don't want to... stop having them!
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ForgotMyPWSendHelp 4 years ago (edited)
I think a better solution is treating childrearing like the serious choice that it is instead of just expecting everyone to pop out kids because that's just what you do. In general, society should discourage people from having kids unless they've thought about it and decided they really want them, the way we're taught to carefully consider our career paths and other choices. And of course, adequate sex education, contraception, and access to abortion should be available to everyone. In the long run, increased intentionality about having children = fewer neglected and abandoned children = people raised with a better foundation who are happier and more well-rounded as adults = a better society overall. I dream, though.
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
What a piece of shlt. I couldn't wait to hold my son and I changed first diaper and probably last one too.
Jacqueline 4 years ago
I feel for the woman giving birth. She probably doesn't know about his sh!+ty attitude when they were dating because he put on the charm. This is why we need a neuro psychological test before marriage or having a child with someone.
Jacqueline 4 years ago
I feel for the woman giving birth. She probably doesn't know about his sh!tty attitude when they were dating because he put on the charm. Neuro psychological tests should be conducted during the dating period.
#30
Wife just gave birth and we asked that same question to our nurse. She told us about the time a guy brought in his pregnant wife and his pregnant girlfriend. The doctors thought that they were going to try and kill each other so they kept them on separate floors. All the nurses thought the guy was a complete and utter douchebag.
DelvianBlue 4 years ago
I'll never understand why two women are mad at each other instead of the man who cheated on both of them. I would want to gang up on him, not the other woman.
V Martinez 4 years ago
I've always thought that too. Sometimes the women do tag team and go after the guy. But on occasion, the gf knows the man is married and will do whatever to keep him. So, like after the the fact, it's ok to be mad at her besides the husband. I had one guy cheat on me, and I told her. She had no idea. I told her she can have him. She broke up with him also saying she can't trust him and he'll keep doing it. Surprise! A month later she was back with him, she got pregnant, probably to trap him, then they got married. I asked her why? She just loved him too much. I told her he cheated on me with her, now he'll cheat on her with someone new. He did, they divorced a few years later. She just didn't get it.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
It could be that each woman wanted him to be with her, and since that wasn't physically possible, a fight ensued?
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I'm concerned that so many think humans mate for life, or that we must mate for life if we choose marriage.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
Marriage is a voluntary choice AND includes monogamy is unless specifically excluded by prior consent of both parties.
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rumade 4 years ago
If two people in the polycule are trying to kill each other, it's not going well 😂 I don't think this was an example of a poly relationship, rather an a example of a man who should have a vasectomy and stop cheating in relationships
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#31
Baby daddy and baby grandma are in delivery room. We're setting up the table to deliver and cheerfully ask "okay dad, want to cut the cord?". Baby daddy loses his s**t "not if this she devil is in the room" and points to baby grandma. They get into a yelling match and meanwhile the patient and I make awkward eye contact and while the nurse and the other resident try to calm them down, we deliver the baby and I cut the cord.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
What a time and place to vent your dislike..so selfish both father and mother in law..
Amy Stone-Chandler 4 years ago
I cut the cord for my 2nd child. My mother was balling her eyes out(not like my mom at all) and kids dad was puking in the garbage bucket. 3-4 hours later, I drove us home from hospital. After a 30 hour forcep delivery. All good but glad I didn't have more babies! :)
#32
Mom's cousin is with her as she rolls in at 9 cm with her 3rd kid. She's snapchatting pictures of herself posing next to mom who looks very uncomfortable. We deliver baby whom she deems her "sexy lil nephew" MA'AM HE IS FIVE MINUTES OLD.
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
We were the first of all our friends to have a baby. so luckily not in the delivery room, but afterwards, Little Deon had like 25 visitors. We got a full photo album from our friends documenting his first poo on his christening as a gift from our friends. (Keeping this for his 18th birthday)
Otter 4 years ago
Oh God, I saw that during my OB rotation! Baby boy was born, and the mother and her female relatives present were all talking about how hung he was for a newborn.
Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
Good god, imagine if it was a girl and everyone was talking about how tight her vagina is. Just ew. No one would think that was cute or funny. It's so wrong to sexualise babies like that....
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#33
Not a doctor, but my (now ex) mother in law got mad because I didn't want anyone in the delivery room other than my husband so she ran around the hospital hiding. (Now ex) Husband almost missed the birth because he was too busy trying to find her and calm her down.
Sarah Sparkles 4 years ago
Mine didn't like being excluded either and tried to push two nurses out of the way to get in the room. They threatened to call security so she left. Then my son wasn't breathing and had to be taken to the NICU. Instead of staying to support her son she left to go to a party. My husband had to go alone with our baby because they couldn't stop my bleeding. Scariest moment of his life and she left because she didn't want to lose a deposite on a limo. Son is 13 now and we barely talk to my husband's family.
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
It's the mum-to-be's decision as to who is in the delivery room. Hers and NO-ONE else's
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
Exactly. In addition to my husband, I had my mother and my sister in the delivery room with me. I wanted them there, for support. But no one else. My mother-in-law lived halfway across the country at the time (she's passed now, may God rest her soul). But I would have allowed her in, too, if she'd been closer, and she'd wanted to be there. I'd have been okay with that. In fact, I would have wanted her there. She was a sweet woman, and we loved each other. But even if she had been able, if I hadn't been comfortable with that, she would have respected it. Not only that, she would have understood. Because it IS the mom-to-be's choice. This is one of the most vulnerable, special moments of her life. Not to mention, she's exhausted and emotional after, and not going to feel up to company. In my personal opinion, she should at least try to consider her partner's feelings, if he wants someone there, like his mom or sister. But ultimately, it's up to her.
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Random Panda 4 years ago
Birth is not a spectator sport, wtf. Why do people who are not even related to the mother think they are owed a spectacle at such a vulnerable moment for mom?
Eva 4 years ago
It puzzles me, why do family and friends of future family come to the hospital when a women gives birth? In my country you let people know you've had a baby after it has been born. I had a planned C-section and it was only me and my husband in the hospital.
Random Panda 4 years ago
It's the same in my country, only the dad is allowed to see mom and baby during/after birth. The grandparents and other close family members usually come when mom/baby are being discharged, if they are invited. Everyone else waits for an invitation for when the parents are ready for visitors.
Load More Replies... Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
She should have stood back and respected your wishes no matter how much she wanted to be there.. .you didn't want her !!
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
Ugh. Reminds me of my ex fiance, and his mom. Sounds JUST like something they would do. Thank GOD I never married or had a kid with him!!
#34
Mom asks if the baby is mixed....in front of baby daddy who is the same race.
Pheebs 4 years ago
This goes with the post above about genetics of families. Lol. My parents got asked if I was mulato a lot when I was a kid. Just to give an idea: Dad was pretty fair colored - light brown hair, blue/grey eyes, peach skin. Mom was a little darker toned for hair and amber brown eyes, light olive in skin. Both had lightly wavy hair, but the style at the time was straight. Here comes me with tan/olive skin, almost black corkscrew curls, and brown-green hazel eyes. Growing up, I held a dark tan far longer than the rest of my family, and I was the only one with dark, curly hair (that people saw). Just turns out the curly, black hair and hazel eyes tended to only hit one person per generation. I have an aunt who looks almost identical. As my bro got older his features darkened so I don’t stand out quite so much. 😂
Courage the Cowardly Dog 4 years ago
But here it's the mom asking meaning she wasn't sure about the father
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Toni Maroni 4 years ago
Same race? Human race? What kind of race it will be mixed, lizards? I will never understand this behaviour of US people.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Wait, are you saying the only folks that say we are different races are USAers? I thought we inherited that from our European ancestors. Hadn't East India Co decided that the African race was inferior?
Load More Replies... #35
I know my mom punched a nurse and my dad when she was giving birth to me, they had to restrain her. No wonder I turned out the way I did.
Philip Barrett 3 years ago
I mean a person basically saying he goes around punching people for no reason doeset sound "awesome".
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
When doing my obligatory and never-again-never-again OB rotation? Saw a woman punch man right in the genitals. The screaming was his, hers, ours, everyone's, b/c he went down like she killed him and for a split second, we all thought she had.
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
I was at the final few pushes, when I started passing out from the pain with every contraction with our first born when the doctor told my hubby to keep me from passing out as this would obviously be a huge issue. So with every contraction before the last few pushes he (lightly considering) slapped me in the face every time my eyes started to roll back to bring me 'back'...… Our oldest is turning 12 in February and I still get a free slap on his birthday each year. (I must say a nice slap in the face does help to anger you enough to give a nice big push thereafter)
Debbie Burton 4 years ago
I punched my ex during the birth of our 2nd baby.... I was on my side, he was attempting to rub my sore back. I was reaching back to show him where as he lent forward. So it seemed lke I punched him in the face.... baby was nearly 10lb with huge shoulders so dad needed to be punched!!
NotTodaySatan!! 4 years ago
Why did dad need to be punched simply because the baby was big? How was it his fault?
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Amy Stone-Chandler 4 years ago
I kicked my evil midwife. I had 2. One amazing one and one horrible one. She shouldn't have bothered me for internal when I was contracting-by that I mean sticking her entire arm up there in mod contraction..I kicked for her head but got her shoulder :)
NotTodaySatan!! 4 years ago
Are you unsure if you puked on your husband??
Load More Replies... #36
couple with no prenatal care shows up in labor. End up needing a c section. We get the baby out and I'm closing up when the baby daddy starts yelling at us and accusing us of being not real doctors. We keep on going and ignore him. Demands to talk to the ceo of the hospital. Keeps on standing up and looking over the drape. At one one point he is behind me until the nurse gets him to sit down. Finally we finish up as he's yelling at us. She never shows up for follow up appointments but later ends up with a surgical site infection. They try to sue us. I always wonder if there was some underlying abuse there.
jodie kavanagh 4 years ago (edited)
Yes, abusive control for sure. A friend of mine, who has two elderly out-ot-town parents, found out that when his mom had a stroke, she had been having symptoms for like two whole days, and dad refused to take her to hospital because "no one can tell me what's best for my wife". Dad was a life-long mental and physical abuser. As a result, dad is now in a mental unit of a VA home, never to terrorize again, and mom is in a nursing home a state away near the son, with paralysis on one side of the body.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 4 years ago (edited)
Individual doctors and nurses aren't to blame for the healthcare system. Mistreating them is not a fair reaction. And not getting prenatal care is not good either. It's very dangerous for both mother and baby. So no, none of this is logical or valid.
Load More Replies... Ray Martin 4 years ago
And your vast experience in obstetrics was gained where?
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#37
When I did rounds for EMT we had to work a shift in Labor and Delivery. We assisted in multiple deliveries (major hospital so it was full). The one that stuck with me was a young Hispanic girl. Delivery was easy and normal but the vibe was just weird. The father was in the room as well as one set of parents. All three stood in the corner and never spoke a word or supported her in any way. I’m not even sure if they came over and looked at the baby. Hope she got better support later on. Come to think about it she never made a sounds either. No yelling/screaming or crying.
Na Schi 4 years ago
Sad and so toxic! This is more than an indication how the mother was abused. Hope she and her child found the strength to live their own life.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 4 years ago (edited)
No, this is just cultural difference. In some Latino cultures, the father isn't expected to be present for the child's birth but the woman's mother or sometimes MIL. It may very well be that this woman wanted her mother there, but she was unable to be. Perhaps the father's family was trying to make up for that but didn't quite know how to best be supportive. They also might have been under the impression that they were supposed to stand aside and not get in the medical staff's way if they weren't familiar with American medical practices. Also, giving birth in a stoic manner is normal in many Latino cultures. Aside from that, some women just don't make noise during childbirth. I didn't. My nurse thought it was weird and kept telling me to scream if I needed to, but I didn't need to, and after a while her telling me to make noise started getting on my nerves.
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#38
When I was being born, my dad kept complaining to my mom (while she was giving birth) about how hungry he was and that his stomach hurt. She just kid of gave him one of those "Seriously?" looks which made him more mad so he went outside and ordered a pizza to be delivered to the delivery room.
Anita Pickle 4 years ago
"I'm hungry woman what are you not making me my food. Like this is more important, bah!" What a twat
#39
My mom brought her special blanket with her to the hospital. It got picked up with all of the dirty delivery linens and tossed in the laundry room. My mom had dislocated her hip and broken her pelvic bone during delivery, so my aunt and grandma had to dig through nasty hospital laundry to find it, only for baby me to shred it to bits months later.
Yoga Kitty 4 years ago
As a small kid I killed several duvet covers. I always took the edges in my hand and rubbed them against my nose for self comfort. After some time the fabric got holes right at the tips.
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#40
Not a doctor, but was the man in the room. My wife was giving birth to her ex-fiances child, and he burst into the room when she was in labour. Waving a foam "we are number 1" finger. After being absent for 7.5 months. I was sort of pissed at him, but allowed Jim to stay for the birth of his daughter. All in all, we were happy and s**t. I divorced her last year though.
rumade 4 years ago
Click through on the username and read the rest of the story, it's wild. He and his wife were on a break when she slept with her ex, and he never did a DNA test to find out who the father actually was.
Noel Bovae 4 years ago
That's better than I was imagining it. I thought they had only been together for like 7.5 months and already got married. I was like, jeez, that was fast! 😆
Load More Replies... Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
At least everyone apparently had the baby’s interest at heart…I think
#41
My mom passed out in the middle of delivering me. Grandma wouldn't let mom get epidural so ig it was too painful for her. They had to pull me out with the clamp. For the birth of my sister my mom got to the hospital a little earlier and promptly fell asleep. Woke up mid crowning and gave birth.
Seabeast 4 years ago
Why the heck wouldn't Grandma "allow" her to have an epidural? Why was grandma even allowed to make that decision for someone else?
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
No mention of where this happened so possibly the mother was an underage teen.
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Sarah Sparkles 4 years ago
Some do it for religious reasons believing that the woman should feel pain as it says in the Bible. Its a woman's way of paying for her sin. Absolutely insane.
#42
Because of complications during pregnancy, a specialist needed to be present when I was born. Apparently the doctor/specialist was on vacation when my mom was admitted and he showed up before the birth in full hunting gear from duck hunting and changed out at the hospital. I was then born with a cone shaped head. They had to unroll the beanie all the way to fit my head lol
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
"Cone shaped" heads are pretty common wit vaginal births. It's from the baby's head squeezing out.
Noel Bovae 4 years ago
When my son was born my regular obgyn was out of town. The other obgyn at the hospital was on his way out of town, (no clue what their plan was having NO Dr on site.) Anyways, thankfully the Dr was close enough that he was able to turn around and come to the hospital in time. He was wearing flip flops, khaki shorts, and like one of those Hawaiian shirts, while delivery my son. Glad it wasn't a messy birth 😆
#43
Not a Dr, an Emergency Nurse. We had a man bring in his wife in labour, all goes well, but she didn't make it upstairs to L&D, baby born, everyone happy. Dad is on his phone texting furiously, we thought he was spreading the news. 30 mins later he walks out of the area where his wife and brand new baby were, into another area where it turns out his side bint was with THEIR sick Son. He was very lucky it was the middle of the night so no other Family were present to have possibly discovered his secret.
Elizabeth Fussell 4 years ago
His wife was giving birth to their child, he was texting his girlfriend who he had a child with that no one else knew about. So he left his newborn and wife to go and see his mistress and his other child
Load More Replies... Queserasera423 4 years ago
Idk why it's assumed the other woman was a mistress? Couldn't it have been an ex with an older child in the hospital? That's not so weird.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 4 years ago
Yes, I don't know how the staff would know she was a side bint unless they started asking invasive questions, so this is almost certainly an assumption and possibly an incorrect one.
Load More Replies... Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Yeah, but it's not normal to be a cheating scumbag.
Load More Replies... #44
My dad's a doctor who delivers babies and I've heard him retell this one over the years: This woman's final push also pushes out a massive s**t. Her baby pops out and slips face-first, directly into the giant poo. Plenty of women poop while giving birth, but I guess this was a particularly MASSIVE s**t, which still has him laughing to this day.
setsuriseikou 4 years ago
Pretty symbolic, I'd say, given all the sh*tty things that happen in this world.
Angela Jester 1 month ago
So many shite stories! They used to give you an enema when you went in if you weren't too far along. I wonder why they stopped?
#45
Not a doctor but just something I thought was funny about my birth. My Dad, avid hunter guts animals like nothing nearly passed out and was kicked out of the room by my pissed off mother while she was giving birth. But they had to wake me up to be born. Took this little thing she said looked like an electric razor that vibrated and put it on one side of her stomach and the other side almost instantly shot out 8" because i rocketed to the other side
Draj 4 years ago (edited)
They needed to wake the baby so they used the "razor" to do it. Baby moved to the other side to avoid the "razor" making it bulge outwards.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I have no idea what they used, but odds are the OP did not "rocket" anywhere, and if there's an OB nurse/doctor here, please explain? Was the child in utero or what?
Kalikima 1 year ago
Trust me, babies do rocket in utero. I once drank shockingly cold milk once whole pregnant, it woke up my son and startled him so bad he shot up and headbutted my stomach so hard that the milk shot out of my mouth and covered my dog.
Load More Replies... #46
Obligatory not a doctor but my husband almost missed the birth of our second child because he has nervous diarrhea. He went to the bathroom and I was comfortably dosed with epidural. Came out to me pushing.
#47
Not a doctor, but apparently this confused the ones present and my living to adulthood wasn't expected at all. I was a super early baby, tiny and sick. I came out the colour black, because I was freezing. I had a bunch of problems, but to solve this in particular they tried almost immediately to wrap me in insulating fabric and put me on a radiator in the room. Not a specially made one, not an incubator or anything, a literal radiator. My mother said f**k it and held me instead. Apparently I got colour shortly after. I still really want to know why you'd put a baby on a radiator. They had the facilities there to warm me for other reasons later, so the radiator makes no sense.
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
i call BS on this sounds like a story a kid would make up or something someone's parents told them as a joke like my mum told me i was found under a coffee table which is an obvious lie as i know i was mail order
Beth L 4 years ago
Sounds like OP probably heard the story before they were old enough to understand it, and this is how they made sense of it. But black tissue is dead tissue, so it can't be accurate.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
You'd be born blue, if I remember my medical school properly, and I think I do. Not calling entire BS, but... I think the radiator thing and "black" is a bit exaggerated. Just my opinion, never saw anything like it in the books, for sure.
Random Panda 4 years ago (edited)
You can be born blue, it happened with me, because my mom was left unattended during the night and by the time a nurse came by to see her the birth was well underway, and I had almost suffocated. I had a mark on my chin for years from where the doctor had grabbed me to pull me out (I was lucky not to have nerve damage on my face). But black? Sounds made up and the radiator thing makes no sense.
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My birth was a bit crazy. My mum started getting contractions during cooking the Christmas dinner and eventually had to give up on that and go to the hospital. Unfortunately on the way in the ambulance (or when they arrived at hospital) they found baby me was in distress with my cord around my neck and we'd have to go to a different hospital. One bumpy ambulance trip later my mum arrived and the nurses about were a bit tipsy having some Christmas celebrations at work. I was born eventually just after midnight and there was a powercut. My mum was put in a room with broken heart monitors. My grandma and great grandma (dad's side) came to visit and brought a gift of an open box of used tissues. My mum has a photo of both looking at her holding baby me, them looking kinda creepy and my mum holding me like they just asked for my feet to make soup. So my birth ruined Christmas dinner for my family, I tried to strangle myself with my own umbilical cord, shat myself in my mum and scared her senseless, leading her to have a kid a nightmare to sort birthdays out for.
Sarah Sparkles 4 years ago
Usually when a Dr or nurse is on call they are not allowed to drink. What kind of hospital let's it's staff get drunk while at work?
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 4 years ago (edited)
It doesn't even say they were on call, it says says were at work! No medical staff would ever have a party with booze while they were working. So either it happened a looooong time ago, the story is embellished, or it's just a flat out lie.
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Not a doctor but this is actually the story of my birth. My mom was at a party that had over 50 people when she went into labor. They rushed her into the car and took her to the hospital but they kept getting lost because they couldn’t figure out the directions. They eventually made it to the hospital and within less than an hour, the whole party moved into the delivery room. I was born a few hours later and when the doctors initially saw me, they thought that I was dead. They started freaking out until they realized that I was sleeping. The doctors literally thought that I was dead because I was sleeping when I was born. They obviously had to wake me up and I cried because that was a damn beautiful nap. If they didn’t, the amniotic fluid in my lungs would basically kill me because I wouldn’t be able to breathe. ~a few days later~ My mom had an allergic reaction and they had to give her some medicine that would poison me if I was breastfed. So yeah.. I almost died twice
Roman Hans 4 years ago
DOCTOR: "This baby's eyes are closed, so even though the machines all show its vital signs as perfect I'm absolutely positive it's dead."
Hogswallop 4 years ago
"I can feel a pulse, but the eyes are closed. My extensive medical training never covered this." 3 DAYS LATER "I must give medicine to the mother, but there is definitely no medicine to give her other than anything that will kill her newborn."
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John Kremm 4 years ago
Not me, but my little sister. Mid 1960s, Mom goes into labor in the wee hours of Christmas eve at home. Her fifth delivery. She had the baby there at home, with my dad 'officiating' as he had done with 3 of the other 4 of us. Later that day, Mom, Dad and little sis go to the hospital and tell the receptions that she had a baby and needed to have everything checked. Receptionist argues not believing her, until (as Dad related the events) Mom took a plastic bag out of the diaper bag and plopped it on the reception desk--yes, the nasty bits from after Sis arrived. White as a sheet the young lady is speechless. Mom then nonchalantly requested to see her doctor again, to get a birth certificate filled out, and to verify that she and baby were both alright. They were. At the time, my mom was approaching 40, in great health, and expected no complication. She had bowled in her league two nights before giving birth, and did NOT miss the next week of league.
What do you think ?
Patti Vance 4 years ago
my daughter (in-law) had me in the room with her. it was her first child. i knew she was anxious about the birthing process but you would have never known this during the time. the doctor had the lights down low, there was some kind of aromatherapy going on, and literally very little talking and then only in whispers. she never made a sound with the exception of when she started transitioning when she said 'i don't know if i can do this'. then, back to silence. the only noise that was made was when my grandson came out to happy noise. then, she surprised me when she asked if i would cut the cord. the most amazing experience in my life.
LumaStar 4 years ago
That is absolutely adorable, and it is so wonderful to see/hear about in-laws who have healthy relationships with each other. I'm so happy that you got to have such a great experience
Load More Replies... Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
This was an adrenaline filled roller coaster ride I did not anticipate. Thank you all.
Meh 4 years ago
When my second was being born ( uk). It was a total s**t show. I kept saying something was wrong only to be told " stop making a fuss" . I powered through after having my gas and air taken away it was awful and very different to when I was having my first ( where I was also refused pain killers ). In the end my son's heart rate dropped so they decided to actually do something when I shouted "get him out now no matter what!!!" They get him out using forceps. He had a huge head ( we knew that already), his fist over his head and we were back to back ( meaning harder and more painful to deliver). He was fine ( thank f**k ) but I felt like I'd been hit by a truck ( complete opposite to my first where afterwards I felt like I could have taken on the world). I was talking absolute rubbish and was clearly out of it. I kept saying I don't feel well but was once again told to stop making a fuss and was literally yanked off the
Meh 4 years ago
The bed. Husband hold our son with one hand and helps me to a shower with the other. While in the shower I collapse. Again my husband catches my head with one hand and shouts for help. Turns out I had internal bleeding and lost 2 litres of blood. I was rushed back in and stitched up, spent a week in hospital until I discharged myself as I was basically left to look after my so. By myself while being hooked up to god knows what. Long physical recovery and 3 years of horrendous post natal depression where I just wanted to literally die or disappear ( I felt like such a useless failure). Somehow I fell pregnant again with my other son where I came off all my meds and by the time he was born my head was clear once again. His birth was perfect as myself and my husband were insistent that I was listened to plus they had my notes from my second. No depression and felt great after his birth although as soon as he was
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KombatBunni 4 years ago
My daughter loves hearing the story of her birth. How her dad wanted to watch proceedings and almost passed out, had to be asked twice to cut the cord, how before that he was like some kind of weird cheerleader telling me that it was only 15 mins till midnight and I could push a baby out by then..made me a bit annoyed tbh and how the next day he made fun of me walking funny and I offered to smack him in the crotch so that he could see what it felt like. I have to say thank the gods he’s my ex now. Wasn’t a great partner or a great dad tbh but I guess he did his best..
Summer Mason 4 years ago
My ex would watch, didn't cut the cord and left half way through labor to find out he was visiting his girlfriend. He turned out to be a horrible father. I'm glad he is my ex. I just wish me and my husband didn't lose our son to sids like we did. He is a wonderful father, helped me push and encouraged my breastfeeding and cut the cord.
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Anjelika 4 years ago
My mum told me that when she was giving birth the nurses were telling her to hurry up because their shift finishes at 17 00 I was born at 16 57
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
Family story. My Uncle and Aunt had the obligatory tests before they married (Australia 1970s). The doctors told my Aunt that she would never have a baby. So they married and didn't take any sort of contraceptives on the honey moon. The doctors were wrong. 9 months later, my Aunt was in hard labour. At one point, the offending doctor was stupid enough to come see her. She stood up on the bed and yelled at the doctor, and said that she wasn't ready to become a mother.
mamafrog 4 years ago
Oh man, my third was fun. Hubs and I were in L&D watching a TV show we had wanted to see. There was a 17 year old girl next door screaming her head off and the nurses were going crazy trying to help her. It finally got to the point where I knew the baby was coming out no matter what and my husband had to go find the nurses and tell them. They said they had actually forgotten about us in all the fuss because we were so quiet, lol. What can I say, number three, been there done that and I had wanted to see that TV show!
thegolfball 4 years ago
A woman I worked with shared a story about the birth of she and her twin brother. She was born normally. They finished up delivery and took mother to reccovery. The mother told the nurse she had to poop and asked for a bedpan. it wasn't a poop - she delivered the twin brother. Said the brother dealt with the fact he was delivered in the bedpan pretty well. (Seemed a bit far fetched to me!)
Patti Vance 4 years ago
my daughter (in-law) had me in the room with her. it was her first child. i knew she was anxious about the birthing process but you would have never known this during the time. the doctor had the lights down low, there was some kind of aromatherapy going on, and literally very little talking and then only in whispers. she never made a sound with the exception of when she started transitioning when she said 'i don't know if i can do this'. then, back to silence. the only noise that was made was when my grandson came out to happy noise. then, she surprised me when she asked if i would cut the cord. the most amazing experience in my life.
LumaStar 4 years ago
That is absolutely adorable, and it is so wonderful to see/hear about in-laws who have healthy relationships with each other. I'm so happy that you got to have such a great experience
Load More Replies... Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
This was an adrenaline filled roller coaster ride I did not anticipate. Thank you all.
Meh 4 years ago
When my second was being born ( uk). It was a total s**t show. I kept saying something was wrong only to be told " stop making a fuss" . I powered through after having my gas and air taken away it was awful and very different to when I was having my first ( where I was also refused pain killers ). In the end my son's heart rate dropped so they decided to actually do something when I shouted "get him out now no matter what!!!" They get him out using forceps. He had a huge head ( we knew that already), his fist over his head and we were back to back ( meaning harder and more painful to deliver). He was fine ( thank f**k ) but I felt like I'd been hit by a truck ( complete opposite to my first where afterwards I felt like I could have taken on the world). I was talking absolute rubbish and was clearly out of it. I kept saying I don't feel well but was once again told to stop making a fuss and was literally yanked off the
Meh 4 years ago
The bed. Husband hold our son with one hand and helps me to a shower with the other. While in the shower I collapse. Again my husband catches my head with one hand and shouts for help. Turns out I had internal bleeding and lost 2 litres of blood. I was rushed back in and stitched up, spent a week in hospital until I discharged myself as I was basically left to look after my so. By myself while being hooked up to god knows what. Long physical recovery and 3 years of horrendous post natal depression where I just wanted to literally die or disappear ( I felt like such a useless failure). Somehow I fell pregnant again with my other son where I came off all my meds and by the time he was born my head was clear once again. His birth was perfect as myself and my husband were insistent that I was listened to plus they had my notes from my second. No depression and felt great after his birth although as soon as he was
Load More Replies... KombatBunni 4 years ago
My daughter loves hearing the story of her birth. How her dad wanted to watch proceedings and almost passed out, had to be asked twice to cut the cord, how before that he was like some kind of weird cheerleader telling me that it was only 15 mins till midnight and I could push a baby out by then..made me a bit annoyed tbh and how the next day he made fun of me walking funny and I offered to smack him in the crotch so that he could see what it felt like. I have to say thank the gods he’s my ex now. Wasn’t a great partner or a great dad tbh but I guess he did his best..
Summer Mason 4 years ago
My ex would watch, didn't cut the cord and left half way through labor to find out he was visiting his girlfriend. He turned out to be a horrible father. I'm glad he is my ex. I just wish me and my husband didn't lose our son to sids like we did. He is a wonderful father, helped me push and encouraged my breastfeeding and cut the cord.
Load More Replies... Anjelika 4 years ago
My mum told me that when she was giving birth the nurses were telling her to hurry up because their shift finishes at 17 00 I was born at 16 57
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
Family story. My Uncle and Aunt had the obligatory tests before they married (Australia 1970s). The doctors told my Aunt that she would never have a baby. So they married and didn't take any sort of contraceptives on the honey moon. The doctors were wrong. 9 months later, my Aunt was in hard labour. At one point, the offending doctor was stupid enough to come see her. She stood up on the bed and yelled at the doctor, and said that she wasn't ready to become a mother.
mamafrog 4 years ago
Oh man, my third was fun. Hubs and I were in L&D watching a TV show we had wanted to see. There was a 17 year old girl next door screaming her head off and the nurses were going crazy trying to help her. It finally got to the point where I knew the baby was coming out no matter what and my husband had to go find the nurses and tell them. They said they had actually forgotten about us in all the fuss because we were so quiet, lol. What can I say, number three, been there done that and I had wanted to see that TV show!
thegolfball 4 years ago
A woman I worked with shared a story about the birth of she and her twin brother. She was born normally. They finished up delivery and took mother to reccovery. The mother told the nurse she had to poop and asked for a bedpan. it wasn't a poop - she delivered the twin brother. Said the brother dealt with the fact he was delivered in the bedpan pretty well. (Seemed a bit far fetched to me!)
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